Friday 14 May 2021

We Know How This Will End

Trying to explain the latest conflict between Israel and Palestine is not easy as it goes all the way back to the foundation of Israel in 1948 and the captured of the then Arab-controlled parts of Jerusalem.
The tension this time has been the Jewish settlement in the east of Jerusalem, an area that Palestinians claim Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and Jewish groups have been using the Israeli courts to evict Palestinian residents from their homes in East Jerusalem, claiming that the houses were owned by Jews prior to 1948 and the ruling was due to be handed down on May 10 but was postponed amidst protests which Israeli police responded to with teargas, stun grenades and storming and occupying the al-Aqsa mosque.
The Palestinians rulers, Hamas, told Israel to remove security forces from in and around the mosque and when they never, fired missiles into Israel and Israel answered with military attacks in Gaza and have prepared a land invasion.
What normally happens is that the Palestinians death toll raises to such shocking levels that the international pressure forces Israel to back down but not before the US, Israels main ally, back the Israel in a military campaign using the usual 'right to defend itself' misnomer until the civilian human cost becomes unbearable, and only then will there be pressure for an end to the genocide and sadly for the Palestinians,
a return to the grim status quo and Israel running roughshod over Palestinain human rights.

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